⭐️ Total score | 2.81/5 (Rank #837) |
👍 Quality of life score | Okay |
👶 Family score | Bad |
🎒 Community score | Okay |
💵 Cost | 😙 Affordable: $1,322 / mo |
📡 Internet | 😡 Slow: 4Mbps (avg) |
😝 Fun | Bad |
⛅️ Temperature (now) | 🥵 Too hot: 32°C89°F (feels 45°C113°F) |
💦 Humidity (now) | 🥵 Sweaty: 82% |
💨 Air quality (now) | 🌱 Great: 38 US AQI |
👌 Safety | Okay |
🤮 Food safety* | Okay |
👮♀️ Lack of crime* | Bad |
🎓 Education level* | Low |
⚡️ Power grid | Great |
🌊 Vulnerability to climate change | Good |
💰 Income level* | Very low: $179 / mo |
🙊 English speaking* | Bad |
🚶 Walkability | Okay |
✌️ Peace (no pol. conflict) | Okay |
🚦 Traffic safety* | Bad |
🏥 Hospitals | Okay |
😄 Happiness* | Okay |
🍸 Nightlife | Bad |
📶 Free WiFi in city | Bad |
🖥 Places to work from | Great |
❄️ A/C or heating | Okay |
😁 Friendly to foreigners | Good |
🗯 Freedom of speech* | Good |
👩 Female friendly | Okay |
🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | Okay |
🎅 Startup Score | Bad |
🌍 Continent | Latin America |
🚩 Country | Nicaragua |
⏱ Average trip length | 10 days |
📡 Internet speed (avg) | 4 Mbps |
⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 32°C 89°F + 🥵 Sweaty (82%) = feels 45°C 113°F |
💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 38 US AQI 🍃 OK |
🔌 Power | 115V60Hz |
🚑 Travel medical insurance | ![]() |
💸 100 NIO in USD | USD 2.73 |
🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | NIO 10,000 = USD 273 |
💸 Tipping | Yes, 10% |
💻 Best coworking space | Co-labora |
☕️ Best coffee place | Cafe Las Flores |
☕️ Best alt. coffee place | El Coche Cafe |
🏪 Best 24/7 coffee place | HOTEL LOS ROBLES |
🚰 Tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
♻️ Return rate | 8% of visitors return |
👨👩👧👦 Population | 1,000,000 people |
👨👩👧👦 GDP per capita* | $2,151 / year |
👫 Gender ratio (nomads) | 👨 70% 👱♀️ 30% |
🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
🏠 Apartment listings | Craigslist |
🏥 Best hospital | Hospital Metropolitano |
💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,322 / month |
💵 Cost of living for expat | $646 / month |
💵 Cost of living for family | $1,129 / month |
💵 Cost of living for local | $323 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $1,270 / month |
🏡 Airbnb (median price) | $943 / month |
🏠 1br studio rent in center | $273 / month |
🏨 Hotel (median price) | $59 / night |
🏠 Airbnb (median price) | $31 / night |
🏢 Coworking hot desk | $184 / month |
🍛 Dinner | $3 |
🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L) | $2 |
☕️ Coffee in cafe | $0.00 |
👩🏫 International school | $3 / year |
📱 Mobile data (~10GB) | $0 / month |
🚕 Taxi price (avg ~3km/2mi trip) | 0 / trip |
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Freedom of speech
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not very democratic
❌ Not very safe
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very sweaty and humid now
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
Feels | 9736° hot | 9937° hot | 9937° hot | 10641° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 10239° hot | 9937° hot | 9736° hot |
Real | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9133° hot | 9133° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8630° very warm |
Humidity | sweaty 73% | nice 69% | nice 67% | nice 66% | nice 70% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 80% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 73% |
Rain | dry 14mm | dry 6mm | dry 14mm | rainy 68mm | rainy 82mm | rainy 232mm | rainy 149mm | rainy 230mm | rainy 247mm | rainy 220mm | rainy 57mm | dry 25mm |
Cloud | pockets 41% | pockets 20% | pockets 22% | pockets 48% | pockets 49% | cloudy 68% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 63% | cloudy 54% | pockets 28% |
Sun | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI | avoid sun 8 UVI |
Remote workers | 343 people | 257 people | 267 people | 250 people | 280 people | 200 people | 300 people | 400 people | 280 people | 300 people | 350 people | 240 people |
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